alt Hacker News> As always with Emacs, the learning curve is a bit steep at first
For any Emacs users who are interested in using Emacs for mail but don't want to deal with the learning curve of Gnus, check out mu4e, which is easier.
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floathub • 12/09/2024
mu4e paired with mbsync is really amazing. All your email in Emacs, with super fast search, and the ability to integrate into things like org agenda.
I found this guide particularly useful for setting things up and even dealing with annoying outlook/office365 servers:
https://brettpresnell.com/post/email/
Does take a bit of doing, but so worth it.
The main reason I chose Gnus instead of mu4e or notmuch is that I did not want to sync all my mailboxes to local disk. What is perhaps not so well known is that IMAP provides its own server-side search engine. Searching mail with Gnus search queries [1] works really well, and I do not have to manage any overhead to get my mail synchronized, indexed, etc. In other words, everything I need for email is built into Emacs (or outsourced to the IMAP server) - no extra packages/software required.
[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/gnus/Sea...